UDT Special Report: Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2024 FT/Rick of Sigma DuoCast

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Hey everyone, Uncle Dad here, and we've got a very special, unique,

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probably the first time we have done this, we have worked with our good friend

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from Sigma Duocast, the one and only Rick, or I like to call him Sexy Rick.

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Now Sexy Rick is going to be our junior reporter, more like a film critic if

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you will, and he will be helping us out a lot with different things that we

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can't do for certain on-the-field jobs.

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For example, we get asked to do a lot of film reviews and stuff along those

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lines, and we can't always get to that, and we want to provide the most content for our audience.

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What we're doing now is teaming up with Rick, or Sexy Rick, and he will be kind

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of our go-to guy for film reviews if we can't get to them.

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Without further ado, I really cannot wait to introduce this episode,

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so let me introduce it. We are going to be doing a special coverage on the Santa

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Barbara International Film Festival that just passed literally last weekend.

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So when you hear this, like last weekend, it was going on from the 7th through the 14th of February.

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It was such a great time. You know, from what I had seen and been continually

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staying in research with, the films there were just incredible.

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And Rick had a lot of great things to say about the films that he reviewed.

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Not only did Rick review actual film, he reviewed one full-length picture and a bunch of shorts.

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You'll get to experience all that in two parts in this episode.

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And I really can't tell you enough. Go check out Rick. Go check out his podcast.

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It's called Sigma Duocast. You can find that on pretty much any streaming platform.

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You can find that on Instagram.

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It's literally just Sigma Duocast. One word, check him out.

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Again, thank you, Rick, for being a part of the team. Thank you for being a

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part of our little Uncle Dad universe.

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And thank you guys for listening. If you guys like this film review stuff,

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please hit me up at UncleDad at UncleDadTalks.com.

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And then we can throw some more films in our way. If there's stuff you want

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to see that we review, do we do big time reviews? I don't know.

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I want to do more reviews to provide more content for our listeners, for our fan base.

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And really, I just can't thank you enough. And I hope you guys appreciate this content.

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So again, check out Rick of Sigma Duocast. You can find him on any streaming

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platform and then of course, go to his social media.

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That's going to be Sigma duo cast one word.

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And yeah, without further ado, I'm going to hand it over to Rick.

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Rick, tell them what you saw.

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What's up everyone i am rick from sigma do a cast or as uncle dad likes to call me sexy rick,

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uncle dad asked me to cover a few films from the santa barbara international

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film festival which i was more than excited to do so so thank you to uncle dad

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for allowing me to cover a couple of these as well as thank you to santa barbara

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international film festival for hosting such such a wonderful event.

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I, a lot of people don't realize that, you know, when you go to the bigs,

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to the theaters, the big screen,

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what have you, like there's a place where a lot of these creative individuals

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start from, you know, whether it's making movies from your own garage and putting

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them on YouTube nowadays or anything like that.

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Film festivals is like the heart of a lot of the film industry where a lot of

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people get to express a lot of the creativity, a unique creativity as well.

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So I'm always, always interested what you can find at a film festival.

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So I was able to view five shorts and one featured film.

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And I'm excited to bring that to you guys today, sharing my perspective and

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my thoughts on these five shorts and feature film.

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So I'm going to be giving you guys kind of like a review, but I want it to be

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more just like sharing my perspective, my own thoughts and opinion on these films.

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At the end of the day, you know, I don't want to let me say this.

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I don't want it to be where I'm like telling you, oh, this is good and this is bad.

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And you go, oh, OK, well, they said it was bad.

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Therefore, I don't want to mess with it. But if there's anything that bugs me

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nowadays is that there's people specifically on social media or what have you

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where they have a big following and a powerful voice and they say, this is no good.

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And then, you know, all 1,000 million billions, whomever followers go,

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this person said it's no good.

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Therefore, it must be no good. I don't want to watch it.

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And that's not the case because there's a lot of things in this world where,

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or at least in media, where a movie is universally well-received and there are people that hate it.

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And then there's movies that are universally received as bad,

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but there are people that love it.

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So at the end of the day, it's whatever your opinion you have on the project

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or the film or whatever it is.

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That's all that matters. If you like it, great. If you don't, you don't. But my goal,

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ultimately, whenever I do film reviews or share my thought on something is to

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just enlighten my point of view, my perspective,

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how it relates to me with the intent and ultimate goal that hopefully it creates

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interest for you to check out something that you otherwise wouldn't.

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I think ultimately that's what we utilize reviews for and what we try to get from reviews.

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But a lot of people don't see it that way. It's more of like,

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this person said it sucks, therefore it sucks.

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Instead of just taking like, hey, this is what I think about it.

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This is how it correlated with me.

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You know, if you happen to like my opinion, then maybe it might be some,

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if I say, you know, if I share it truthfully, maybe you'd be like, oh, well, you know what?

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Maybe I should check that out and see if it's any good or what have you.

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So again, that's my ultimate goal. Now, this is my first time reviewing films from a film festival.

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Therefore, I'm going to tailor these reviews a little bit differently.

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In addition, I'm going to make this kind of quick because I did five shorts and a feature film.

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I don't want to spend too much, like a lot of time on this because obviously

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I can probably speak for a couple hours.

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Ultimately, when I say it's short, I'm not going to be diving into much of the details of the film.

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The directors, the actors, writers, backstories, behind the scenes, things of that nature.

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I'm just going to get really straight to it. I'm just going to give you guys

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a scoring system that I use, which is a five-point system, where 0.5 is the lowest,

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where I didn't really care for it, and 5 being the highest.

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Biased now just because again like i said if i give

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it a 0.5 that doesn't mean the movie's bad or anything i mean

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just wasn't for me specifically and the

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way i generally break down these reviews it's kind of

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like an utilizing that five point system train of thought so the first one would

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be story and plot just kind of what was the story about was the plot was it

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good did i you know was i smart enough to get it or understand it or anything

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like that to acting directing so uh The direction,

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did the director have a good sense of what's it about?

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Was the acting well entertained? Is it believable?

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Three, visual cinematography. You know, if there's CGI, if it's animated,

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transitions, lighting, like all those minutiae things I like to look into.

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Four, music. You know, the score, composing, soundtrack. You know,

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I think music's very important in films and sometimes in certain scenes.

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It really, you know, establishes the, you know, the importance of what the scene

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is and it helps the carry the weight of the emotion or the intensity of what

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havers, you know, happening on film.

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And then finally, there's the fifth one, which is like my miscellaneous.

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It's kind of like my just about anything.

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So, you know, was it was the movie long? Was it short? Was the pacing bad? Was entertaining?

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Was it boring? Did it put me to sleep? You know, like you name it.

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It's kind of like, you know, free for all. this is where

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you can really because i've seen a lot of people say with when they

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review something like it just it kind of dragged and

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i was just like okay that's valid because you

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know that could be pacing could be a lot of different things that go into

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that or it's just like it's very entertaining but then

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there's like a good 30 minutes of just dialogue but

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then all of a sudden here's action or drama

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like so again that's what i'll be using but again hopefully the main goal here

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is just so you guys can just kind of hopefully generate curiosity and interest

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and you go hey you know what let me check that out because maybe it'd be something

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i would never really watch and because of that i'm not going to include spoilers.

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In these reviews or at least i'm going to try my very hardest to include very

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minimal things because at the end of the day i really just want to explain what

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you know what this movie or what what these films made me feel, what I took away from it.

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Whether it's relatable for me in my personal life or.

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And to convey that, sometimes you do have to get a little more in depth with

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the plot of what I just saw.

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But again, I ultimately just want you guys to check them out.

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So I'm going to try my hardest to not.

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So I think that kind of sums up what to expect from my reviews.

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And I understand this is the first time I'm doing reviews for Uncle Dad.

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So you guys don't necessarily know what I'm into, what I like.

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I'll just say, to me, film is like music.

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Like I love almost every genre, every type of film.

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I mean, I just love film. Like I love movies.

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The term is cinephile. And so that's one of the big things I am.

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I'll pretty much watch just about anything.

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So kind of give you an idea of just my range. It's kind of everywhere.

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But yeah. All right. So this first part here, well, I'm going to cover the five shorts.

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And again, I'm just going to go over the title of the film and just kind of

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briefly what what it was about, what I took away from it, how I felt.

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No like super in-depth details as I would love to, but I'm not going to do it this time around.

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After that, we'll do a short break. And then when I come back,

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we'll cover that feature film.

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Yeah. Alrighty guys. So let's get into it.

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The first film that I'm going to start off with is None or Never,

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which is a short animated film.

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Let me see if i can give you guys the synopsis here so a nun digs a man up from

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the ground and loses her grip on everyday life can secrets and harmony coexist now for me on this one,

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of the five well total six films this one's the one i i had less connection

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to because obviously i'm not a nun and i'm not looking to be a nun but not necessarily that that.

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It was just very unique. This was definitely a unique short film.

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Again, it was fully animated. So as far as the plot and story goes,

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from what I took away from it, at least what I was able to translate from what

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was visually being shown to me was that when it comes to nuns,

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I think it's safe to say that we all assume the same.

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So when you see a nun or even like a group of nuns, like they're uniform,

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they behave the same, like you expect help, sincerity, all that stuff, right?

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But we don't know who they were before because that's not something they wear

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on the outside. It's something that they contain on the inside.

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And so what I took away from this film is that the character that we follow is,

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We got like maybe a hint of their previous life or regular life, I guess, previous life.

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I mean, I don't know how, I guess that's the way to say it.

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And then they're kind of just going through that.

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Again, I don't want to give spoilers. So that was my takeaway from it.

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So I'm hoping I took the intent of what it was supposed to be, but it was good.

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I mean, I thought it was very unique in terms of acting and direction.

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And I mean, there was, there was no dialogue. long they were just like little like like

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those type of sounds to emphasize emotion or response or what have you direction

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because it was an animated film i mean they they had full control where they

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were going with it so i'm assuming what the director intended they got visual.

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Merchandise i'm so sorry visuals and cinematography i don't know why i said

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that right now It has a very unique and weird art style to, to this little short film.

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Like it was cool. Like I, I was digging it.

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I feel like I've seen it before, but yeah, it was definitely,

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it was definitely unique.

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I'll say it that way. Even like, I remember I read something about the director

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they were talking about and it said, yeah, it's like, you know,

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it's that weird art, which I don't know how to explain it.

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It reminded me of like maybe, maybe like a elementary school kids,

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like art, like if they were to draw people, what they would assume.

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And then it comes to life. That's kind of reminded me again.

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I know that probably doesn't help, but for me, that's how it translates music.

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There was some good music in it as far as like, you know, composing and how it carried the story.

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And as far as miscellaneous like i i for me because it was just so unique and

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i don't want to make that i'm not i don't want to say it's like a negative thing or anything it's just.

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I was trying really hard just trying to like figure like understand what is

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being is being told to me so by the whole time i spent too much time just trying

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to translate everything thing all the visuals so it kind of took away a little

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bit from the entertainment piece of it,

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but it was all right overall for me it just it wasn't my cup of tea although i love the animation,

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and i'm like i said i'm pretty sure i get what they were good where they were

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getting at with the story it just wasn't for me unfortunately so i did give

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it a two out of five for none or never a short animated film.

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All right, the next one I did was Les Patines, which I believe is French for the skates.

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This was a short film, live action.

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This one was, I enjoyed this one. This one was interesting.

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It's not as relatable to me, but it's interesting because I think it's extremely

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relatable to a lot of people in this day and age.

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So let me see here. I believe I have the synopsis, a quick little one here.

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Let me just locate it for you guys. So Mina loves to skate.

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Today, her father, recently divorced from her mother, accompanies her to her

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first figure skating lesson.

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An ordinary day if something hadn't happened to the skates.

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That last line's a little misleading in my personal opinion.

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Him so yes it

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starts off very beautiful

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where it's a father-daughter she's going

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for first lessons to go figure skating very well done they even had a good little

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music and their little soundtrack where she you know a little montage of her

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kind of i'm worried like the 80s movies when like you know they're getting all

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pumped up like it's like rocky you know like i'm gonna start Start working out

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and just start playing it or some type of Van Damme movie.

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You know what I mean? And it was nice. It was very beautiful.

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I think it started off really well, but then it took a turn where the divorce aspect of the story,

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while also including if both parents, if not at least one of them is petty about the divorce,

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kind of just that took like a little bit of a dark turn for me.

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And i am pretty damn sure that was the intent in

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this story so well done i think it was done very

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well acting and directing between uh

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the the actress that played mina the little girl and

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the father because they're like the main two characters um there's

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other people but those are the main two for what they were intended

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to do or portray and you know

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basically what their characters were supposed to be they bring it to life really

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well great direction in my

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my opinion visuals and cinematography was great like i said they i love the

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little montage they did which kind of taken to the fourth point is that music

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piece like i really really digged how they did all that and everything was well

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transitioned and it really the you got the,

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image of where you needed to be whether you were the father whether you were

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the daughter or whether you were an item and if that makes sense to you so it's

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really well done miscellaneous.

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I think it was entertaining it was great i for

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me it was just really it kind of it

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didn't hit home but it can hit home for some people so it

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brought the emotion of frustration which i believe was the

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intent now i am my parents

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did divorce when i was in my teens but you

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know we're mexican american family i'm first-gen

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mexican-american so it's a little bit different there wasn't

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like pettiness in a sense but what they

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present to you in this film the if

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if a parent or both parents have pettiness and what it does

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to the child you know psychologically and emotionally that's really captured

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well and you know it was it was it was pretty frustrating pretty sure the intent

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was to to show the frustration and at the end of it,

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make you feel for the child and how messed up it is.

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So hopefully, you know, if you're, if you're a child that's gone through this,

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you know, hopefully opens your eyes. Like, Hey, look at.

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Your parents can be, they can be jerks. Hopefully you don't get too lost into that.

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But again, we look, children look at their parents like they're heroes. They're be everything.

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Ultimately, I hope that parents, divorced parents watch this and they set a

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better example on how they can be towards their kids.

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So 3.5 out of 10 out of five less spittins. Like I said, really good.

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I really enjoyed this film.

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All right. The third short that I reviewed here was someone's trying to get

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in short film live action.

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This one is interesting. Not really relatable for me.

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And I don't really have a synopsis for you guys or anything because I didn't,

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I wasn't provided that one for this one.

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So this one's about it's like current events and this can be a touchy subject to some.

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The whole premise or the whole thing of this film

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it follows family two parents

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and two kids i remember correctly an individual they're

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immigrants i believe from haiti they're immigrating making

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their way to canada crossing the border to canada and then

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they get you know they surrender surrender themselves get taken to like a

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camp but it's like well like it's a nice camp like

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it's very supportive and providing not much security but it was it's nice and

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then it focuses on another family to a parent and then a child and with this

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one i don't necessarily know what the The intent was,

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I get the message, I believe they were trying to share.

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But I didn't, I didn't, I feel, I don't know.

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Okay. So going back to my points with the plot, starting with the story and

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plot, like I just kind of gave you guys the breakdown of far as what it was.

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And i'm assuming

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the individual the single individual that's like immigrating like

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that's the main character that we want to focus on

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but when you see the outside the other i guess main character which i guess

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is the antagonist like i don't know to me just it really just generated a lot

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of hate and i don't know what the intent was as far as was it to bring awareness or was it to.

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Exploit or express what hatred looks like in people

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because it was dark man without even

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having to show you anything to be dark just the what the intentions are the

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acting directing direction like acting was for what the characters were supposed

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but the actors had to work with i mean they did they did a great job especially the main character.

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The cinematography and the visuals is really it's actually really good a lot

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of misdirection i mean there was a moment where i was like i thought it was

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like gonna it was gonna become a horror film,

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because the intensity was really drawn up and

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the way the camera and the lighting was like i was like it's a

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little scary but it never got to that point i don't

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really remember if there's music in this one because it was just kind of

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like a straight story my miscellaneous point

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it was was short it just ended like it

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was like it was building to set

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everything up again with the family and then with the

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the individual and then you had this other family like

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we were building like okay we're getting we're getting and then

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right when we were about to like right when things were about

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to go down the movie's over like the

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short film's over and i think that was the problem problem

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i had with it is that we

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never really got the intent like the message that the main character from what

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i took away from was like no matter where you are whether it's your hometown

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or your home village or home country evil is everywhere and it's pretty much the same.

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And then as far as like the other character that

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it kind of focused on he just has hatred he just hates people like hates immigrants

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and took matters into his own hands and he just it just didn't feel good like

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it just felt very easy so i don't know like this one was a little tricky for

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me because again i am first generation mexican-american so my family was immigrants but,

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you know they immigrated to the u.s back when i don't think we had as much hatred

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as there is now I don't mean to laugh at that, but I mean, nowadays it's, it's bad.

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So because I didn't really know what intent or direction they're going with

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on this one. I, I left this, I gave this one a 2.5 out of five.

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It just wasn't really for me. Like I wouldn't want to watch it again unless

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there's, unless they had like a second part or something like more to it. I don't know.

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Okay. We got two more films here. These two are actually my favorites.

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Favorites so the first one is taking back the groove it was a short documentary

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let me see if i can get you guys here the synopsis this one was really cool

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and i think this one was very important,

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on a lot of aspects so taking back the

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groove tells a story of broxbourne disco

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superstar richie weeks whose hit

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song rock your world made us the number one hit on the dance charts

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in the 80s like surpassed michael jackson prince you name it and i'm sure you

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guys are probably thinking who is this person richie weeks and so it focuses

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on you know like many black artists throughout the american recording history

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you know his talent was strip mine to enrich white owned record labels.

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Weeks and his manager jerome jaraji

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narrate the story on how they clawed back the rights

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of weeks music and the ongoing fight to restore his

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legacy and share his music so this one this one to me you know because yes it

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does talk about a uh it kind of highlights in that thing you know black artist

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and i own record labels i think it was just more on for me it's more of just

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record labels in general or anywhere, contracts,

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things like that, just how you can create content and then you don't own it.

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Back in the day, that's how a lot of people managed to take advantage of people.

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I mean, nowadays, like we all want to put it on stable. Like I own this content. This is my content.

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You know, like if I'm going to put this out, I'm making sure I do everything

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to ensure that people understand this is mine, which is great.

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Back then though, a lot of people were We're just looking for a quick paycheck,

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you know, like, oh, cool.

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I made this like cool song and someone's like, oh yeah, this,

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this is going to get airplay, record play, radio play, what have you.

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Let's, uh, let's go ahead and do this and then just sign this.

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I mean, I think that was just a normal thing.

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I mean, if I remember correctly, I mean, Taylor Swift went through all this

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stuff with her music, you know, she didn't fully owned her catalog and she's making her own stuff.

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I mean, Michael Jackson, the Beatles, like, I mean, I think it was Paul McCartney

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for a minute there that literally owned Michael Jackson's records,

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if I remember correctly, or Queen or someone, I don't know.

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But being able to own your own creative content is very important.

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And they didn't have that back then. So this was a really cool documentary that

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they did where, one, it brought this superstar to light. Really good music, by the way.

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It brought it to light. And I think it's a wonderful story how,

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you know, Richie Weeks here, he did his music was like a hit for a minute.

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The record label went under just pretty much like overnight went bankrupt.

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And then it got purchased.

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Some other company ended up purchasing them.

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Excuse me. If I remember, it was verse music group,

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picked them up and picked up all like their catalog and

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everything so now this record company owned it but then

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that record company then gets bought out by another record company which

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is bmg which is birdelsman music

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group which was a big big like music division

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german media division company from birdelsman where

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they actually like worked with sony corporation of america

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and you know they had a lot of rights of a lot of

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big name artists now i don't know the

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full details of where they're at at now because i'm not covering

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that i'm not looking into that but i mean you can

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think of a lot of big artists and big names like

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they had access like and it's it's it's crazy

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to think that or to to just take a

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moment to think about that like if you make an album for example

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it's like yeah you made the album but you

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don't own it like but that's my stuff no i wrote it and i produced it i did

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this like okay but we paid the checks we paid the bills we paid the for the

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lights and everything like you're it's not yours we own it you know we'll give

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you a portion of proceeds but that's about it we get to use it sample it do

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whatever we want with it we can sell it.

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And so with richie you follow the story where he like when that company kind

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of just fell out he just disappeared you know went on to become regular regular

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joe worked at the post office office for a cool minute and and then here comes this uh this this guy.

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Jerome where he was like hey i

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think i really like your music i'm big

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into this like i feel like you need to get your stuff back and so he

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kind of explains his process of what he did to support

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richie and get basically ownership to

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his to get the rights back and ownership of his music which i

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think is awesome i really think is awesome and i think it's very important for

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a lot of people to to understand contracts to read them to how they benefit

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you what they do for you and to really go on that aspect because again a lot

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of times people get blinded by the dollar signs,

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and this happens a lot.

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Yeah, it was a cool story. I really enjoyed this one.

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I didn't really go through my ranks or anything on this one because I pretty

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much kind of covered everything.

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It was just very well produced. It was like a 35, 40-minute short documentary film.

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Really good. I really loved it. I'm going to go ahead and give this one a 4.5 out of 5.

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Yeah, I had to go there because, again, And it was cool.

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And most importantly, what I love about this, not only did it bring me insight

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on things that happened in the past and things that are currently happening

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and what people have gone through.

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And even me today as a podcaster, I want to be able to own things.

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I make some music every now and then. And I'm like, I want to be able to own that.

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It just really kind of reopens people's mind.

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Like hey protect your stuff man whatever it is that you do protect it own it it's very important,

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but what i loved about this is you know at the

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end of this when i was done with it you know i went on to spotify apple music

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search for richie weeks and sure enough man there's first two volumes are on

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there and so i downloaded those suckers and i've been jamming to some disco

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man and he's He's got some good stuff.

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I mean, a lot of the stuff he was able to, if you watch, I highly recommend

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you watch the documentary, but when you watch it, you know, he shares that,

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you know, he had tapes, like copies of tapes of all his work and things that

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he made that was never released.

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And, you know, his manager, his now manager, Jerome, is like helping him master

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and pretty much archive and digitize all those tapes so that way they can live on forever.

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And man, he's got some dope jams. So taking back the groove,

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short documentary, 4.5 out of 5.

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All righty so the final film

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that i reviewed that was the short films

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was a film called savvy the

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cat it is a short documentary now i'll

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tell you guys right now from the jump i'm gonna be biased definitely biased

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on this one i am definitely a cat person and the

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story revolving just the cat if

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you isolate that is so well done

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and relatable that

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that that alone was already like great but

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what i love about this one is that it follows a

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couple ken and kyla nisimba or

441
00:31:25,356 --> 00:31:29,556
nisimbi and it explains how you

442
00:31:29,556 --> 00:31:32,736
know these two people got together fell in love got married

443
00:31:32,736 --> 00:31:37,056
and then how how they brought a cat home or

444
00:31:37,056 --> 00:31:42,476
I should say one of them brought a cat home and it's

445
00:31:42,476 --> 00:31:45,296
really kind of you know

446
00:31:45,296 --> 00:31:51,396
they they didn't really think it through on how cats react so it created a lot

447
00:31:51,396 --> 00:31:55,856
of chaos like it was a very mischievous cat like and I haven't I've had the

448
00:31:55,856 --> 00:32:00,836
privilege I've owned personally and we've owned three cats and I've never really

449
00:32:00,836 --> 00:32:03,276
had the issues of cats, like tearing things up.

450
00:32:03,636 --> 00:32:07,836
So that's been, I've been very blessed with that, but I can only imagine those.

451
00:32:07,896 --> 00:32:13,256
Like if you have a couch and they tore up a couch or by your wires and stuff.

452
00:32:13,736 --> 00:32:17,316
Like it would suck, man. But thankfully, like I said, I haven't had.

453
00:32:18,016 --> 00:32:21,036
And so with this and this story, it tells the Ted, you know,

454
00:32:21,036 --> 00:32:23,716
shares the tell of what this couple went

455
00:32:23,716 --> 00:32:27,156
through and they did experience that to where it created

456
00:32:27,156 --> 00:32:30,756
essentially like marital problems

457
00:32:30,756 --> 00:32:34,136
you know couple problems and so

458
00:32:34,136 --> 00:32:36,856
there's there's action that they take but what

459
00:32:36,856 --> 00:32:42,756
i love is the reflection and the revelation that they have on a big action that

460
00:32:42,756 --> 00:32:47,636
they take and that they discover that no there's more deeper things and it helped

461
00:32:47,636 --> 00:32:52,696
them and allowed them to work things out to figure things out in their relationships

462
00:32:52,696 --> 00:32:54,616
to to keep the love and the strong,

463
00:32:54,816 --> 00:32:58,696
the bond strong and continue pushing forward.

464
00:33:00,249 --> 00:33:05,929
But again, there was a major price, a major cost to come to that revelation,

465
00:33:06,269 --> 00:33:08,129
which is very disheartening.

466
00:33:09,049 --> 00:33:12,949
But as the story progresses, and I really want people to watch this one,

467
00:33:12,969 --> 00:33:14,249
so I don't want to share too much.

468
00:33:14,529 --> 00:33:18,349
Because I absolutely love this one, this short film.

469
00:33:19,529 --> 00:33:23,229
So definitely watch it, check it out, because I'm not going to tell any more.

470
00:33:24,529 --> 00:33:29,969
In terms of the story, because it's documentary and what they're telling, top notch. I loved it.

471
00:33:30,249 --> 00:33:34,089
Very relatable for me. If you're a cat person, you would definitely enjoy this

472
00:33:34,089 --> 00:33:36,269
film and most likely will find this relatable.

473
00:33:36,369 --> 00:33:41,349
Even if you're also kind of not a cat person or not an animal person in general,

474
00:33:41,469 --> 00:33:45,909
I think it's a really good movie or short documentary film to check out.

475
00:33:46,049 --> 00:33:52,369
So you can see perspective of an individual and the impact that they have on someone that maybe is.

476
00:33:52,369 --> 00:33:57,289
So if you are watching, listening to this and you're a couple and one of you

477
00:33:57,289 --> 00:34:00,629
love animals and the other one doesn't, this might give you some insight or

478
00:34:00,629 --> 00:34:04,989
visual representation, you know, perspective on what can, uh,

479
00:34:05,089 --> 00:34:09,469
what that can be and being brave enough to open up and say, Hey,

480
00:34:09,469 --> 00:34:13,809
maybe I'm at fault or you're at fault, or this is how you're affecting me type of thing.

481
00:34:13,809 --> 00:34:16,769
So acting direct i mean it's it's supposed

482
00:34:16,769 --> 00:34:19,969
to be documentary so unless unless

483
00:34:19,969 --> 00:34:22,989
the whole thing was made up then bravo on

484
00:34:22,989 --> 00:34:25,849
the acting but really good the direction i love the

485
00:34:25,849 --> 00:34:28,949
visuals there's illustrations in between because

486
00:34:28,949 --> 00:34:31,749
it goes from like like i said documentary to like

487
00:34:31,749 --> 00:34:34,449
kind of like home video clips to like you know

488
00:34:34,449 --> 00:34:37,969
just your simple little like be real montage but

489
00:34:37,969 --> 00:34:41,589
then there's some animated visual illustrations that

490
00:34:41,589 --> 00:34:47,229
they provide that i so well done so well done music i love the music love the

491
00:34:47,229 --> 00:34:51,589
music very went with everything they use a couple license tracks from some artists

492
00:34:51,589 --> 00:34:54,109
that was really good i actually ended up like googling or not googling but like

493
00:34:54,109 --> 00:34:57,409
shazamming because i was like i like this i was like i gotta i'm gonna have

494
00:34:57,409 --> 00:34:59,809
to add it to my playlist or just add it to my my music list.

495
00:35:01,537 --> 00:35:04,877
My miscellaneous thoughts, just loved it. Like I said, really biased because

496
00:35:04,877 --> 00:35:06,717
it was cats. Had to do with a cat.

497
00:35:07,217 --> 00:35:11,777
And as a cat owner, it was very, I was very understanding to what was being told.

498
00:35:11,877 --> 00:35:16,397
So if you haven't got it by now, I gave this one a five out of five.

499
00:35:16,637 --> 00:35:18,657
I'm sorry. I just did. I love it.

500
00:35:19,417 --> 00:35:23,977
Savvy the cat, five out of five. Absolutely loved it. Highly recommended.

501
00:35:25,057 --> 00:35:28,657
So just a quick little recap before we take this little break here.

502
00:35:28,657 --> 00:35:40,437
None or never animated short film i gave it a two out of five les patines short film 3.5 out of five,

503
00:35:41,197 --> 00:35:47,817
someone's trying to get in short film 2.5 out of five taking back the groove

504
00:35:47,817 --> 00:35:52,537
short documentary film, 4.5 out of five.

505
00:35:53,057 --> 00:35:58,717
And then we had Savi the Cat, short documentary film, five out of five.

506
00:35:59,177 --> 00:36:03,817
There were so many movies at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, so many shorts.

507
00:36:03,997 --> 00:36:09,217
These were the five that I was given and these were all very interesting, well appreciated.

508
00:36:09,637 --> 00:36:14,277
Like I said, my personal favorites, Taking Back the Groove and Savi the Cat.

509
00:36:14,497 --> 00:36:18,557
I recommend all five of these hopefully if

510
00:36:18,557 --> 00:36:21,377
any of my reviews on

511
00:36:21,377 --> 00:36:24,077
any of these kind of sparked an interest please check them out i mean at

512
00:36:24,077 --> 00:36:26,817
the very least just check them all out i'm not 100

513
00:36:26,817 --> 00:36:29,817
sure how these are all going to become available because

514
00:36:29,817 --> 00:36:32,777
these are all screened for the film festival but once

515
00:36:32,777 --> 00:36:36,037
they become available if they're not already just google them

516
00:36:36,037 --> 00:36:38,997
find them check them out really good work from

517
00:36:38,997 --> 00:36:41,657
these creative minds creative individuals all the

518
00:36:41,657 --> 00:36:45,977
people involved in directing writing producing producing acting filming

519
00:36:45,977 --> 00:36:48,917
audio i mean there's so

520
00:36:48,917 --> 00:36:51,657
many people that are involved in making

521
00:36:51,657 --> 00:36:54,517
a movie but to every single person that was

522
00:36:54,517 --> 00:36:58,157
involved in making these five fantastic work great

523
00:36:58,157 --> 00:37:01,337
job absolutely loved all the love

524
00:37:01,337 --> 00:37:04,657
and dedication that gets put into this so all right

525
00:37:04,657 --> 00:37:07,397
without further ado we're going to take a short break that uncle

526
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dad is providing here for you guys and then when I come back I will be reviewing

527
00:37:11,477 --> 00:37:17,957
the feature film it is called the movie man and I love this one guys this one

528
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was good so be sure to come back so that you guys can check out my thoughts

529
00:37:23,097 --> 00:37:25,277
and review of the movie man.

530
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Everybody let's give rick a huge round of applause for his

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as he reviews or continues to review these great films.

558
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And the next one is a big one. and he was really passionate about it. It's the movie, man.

559
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You are in for a treat, everyone. Thanks.

560
00:39:25,071 --> 00:39:30,111
Welcome back. So the feature film that I was given to review,

561
00:39:31,031 --> 00:39:34,851
honestly, it couldn't have been such a better film.

562
00:39:35,471 --> 00:39:43,071
I'm so glad that this is the one that Uncle Dad provided because I am a big,

563
00:39:43,111 --> 00:39:48,431
like I said, I'm a big movie guy, but I'm also a very big theater experience person.

564
00:39:49,011 --> 00:39:55,811
Like i love going to the theater i love the cinema i love just everything about it and,

565
00:39:56,371 --> 00:40:03,111
you know since covid like there's been a big diminish of that and it sucks so

566
00:40:03,111 --> 00:40:07,811
bad like i've seen it and not only just that but it's also the commercialization

567
00:40:07,811 --> 00:40:13,611
of theaters of making them so modern and so like you know.

568
00:40:14,564 --> 00:40:17,724
The same it's like going into a like newly

569
00:40:17,724 --> 00:40:20,384
built suburban neighborhood and you're looking at the

570
00:40:20,384 --> 00:40:23,744
houses and they're all exactly the same you know it's

571
00:40:23,744 --> 00:40:27,084
like edward scissorhands are driving down the the the

572
00:40:27,084 --> 00:40:30,084
street and every house is the same design

573
00:40:30,084 --> 00:40:32,764
colors maybe actually no i think the colors were

574
00:40:32,764 --> 00:40:35,624
the same in the beginning and then you know there's routine everyone left

575
00:40:35,624 --> 00:40:38,384
and it was just so uniformed so in that

576
00:40:38,384 --> 00:40:42,124
aspect like that's kind of how movie theaters have become where

577
00:40:42,124 --> 00:40:46,264
at once upon upon a time you know back in the 70s

578
00:40:46,264 --> 00:40:49,524
even before that but like 80s 90s and

579
00:40:49,524 --> 00:40:53,264
very early 2000s for what i can remember you

580
00:40:53,264 --> 00:40:57,024
know there were some unique theaters out there and nowadays

581
00:40:57,024 --> 00:41:01,124
like i would love to go and find a unique theater and just experience it it's

582
00:41:01,124 --> 00:41:05,364
not even even if there's a movie that i don't want to watch or i already saw

583
00:41:05,364 --> 00:41:08,124
or whatever the case may be like just to be able to go into the theater and

584
00:41:08,124 --> 00:41:09,184
experience it that's what i would love

585
00:41:09,184 --> 00:41:16,024
to do and so again with with the modernization of cinemas and you know,

586
00:41:16,024 --> 00:41:21,604
since COVID how like a lot of people do that and not even just COVID just digital streaming,

587
00:41:21,784 --> 00:41:25,564
you know, digital movies, like back in the day, you would go to the movies.

588
00:41:26,204 --> 00:41:31,344
Watch a movie and you'd have to wait like nine months for it to release on VHS

589
00:41:31,344 --> 00:41:33,084
or DVD or Blu-ray or what have you,

590
00:41:33,124 --> 00:41:35,944
where today it's either,

591
00:41:35,984 --> 00:41:38,704
it's available to stream the same day as it comes

592
00:41:38,704 --> 00:41:41,704
out in theaters or 30 days from now you can stream it

593
00:41:41,704 --> 00:41:45,204
or you can purchase it in a month or or two

594
00:41:45,204 --> 00:41:50,004
months digitally or you can purchase it physically in like three months so you

595
00:41:50,004 --> 00:41:55,124
know the dvd business is that's a whole nother topic to discuss i mean best

596
00:41:55,124 --> 00:42:00,144
buy recently pulled all physical media of blu-rays and film and stuff like that

597
00:42:00,144 --> 00:42:03,684
from their stores which is bananas but that's a whole different thing,

598
00:42:04,504 --> 00:42:08,704
so the feature film is the movie man and i'm just going to tell you guys from the jump,

599
00:42:09,304 --> 00:42:15,564
it's a 5 out of 5 for me personally like spoiler whatever 5 out of 5 but the

600
00:42:15,564 --> 00:42:19,944
movie man is really cool it follows a gentleman named Keith Stata who.

601
00:42:21,577 --> 00:42:25,377
Loved movies so much that he couldn't like pursue

602
00:42:25,377 --> 00:42:28,097
his dream of becoming a working like in

603
00:42:28,097 --> 00:42:30,877
Hollywood or producing films because he lives in in a small

604
00:42:30,877 --> 00:42:34,817
village of Kinmount outside of Ontario Canada and

605
00:42:34,817 --> 00:42:37,837
so he couldn't necessarily live that

606
00:42:37,837 --> 00:42:40,877
dream so he did what's the next best thing well he

607
00:42:40,877 --> 00:42:44,397
can bring movies to people and so he built his

608
00:42:44,397 --> 00:42:47,977
own cinema it's called Highlands Cinema and

609
00:42:47,977 --> 00:42:50,757
I'll tell you right now folks if i ever have

610
00:42:50,757 --> 00:42:53,457
the chance excuse me if i ever have the chance to go to

611
00:42:53,457 --> 00:42:56,877
kin mount in ontario canada like that

612
00:42:56,877 --> 00:42:59,597
is definitely going to be a spot for me hopefully they're still open that will be

613
00:42:59,597 --> 00:43:03,157
a spot i'd have to go just to experience it so what

614
00:43:03,157 --> 00:43:06,697
this movie follows is this gentleman keith where it

615
00:43:06,697 --> 00:43:09,877
shows how you know wilderness or

616
00:43:09,877 --> 00:43:12,777
whatever kind of like in small village 300 people living or

617
00:43:12,777 --> 00:43:15,817
what have you he has a home and he decides to build

618
00:43:15,817 --> 00:43:18,577
a cinema in 1979 79 he just built like his own

619
00:43:18,577 --> 00:43:21,517
theater you know and it's a small you know little theater

620
00:43:21,517 --> 00:43:24,777
and from there he started

621
00:43:24,777 --> 00:43:28,197
off and like in 1986 opened a

622
00:43:28,197 --> 00:43:34,297
second cinema screen in his property and then in 88 another one 95 another one

623
00:43:34,297 --> 00:43:41,217
96 another one so he has five screens but the thing about it is is as you watch

624
00:43:41,217 --> 00:43:45,577
this documentary film and it follows for the most part,

625
00:43:45,617 --> 00:43:49,937
the story and the journey of Keith and what he's done and what he did.

626
00:43:50,077 --> 00:43:56,217
What he's gone through, but you start to discover the passion that he has for

627
00:43:56,217 --> 00:43:57,217
it and what he puts into it.

628
00:43:57,297 --> 00:44:02,137
Because it's the novelty of going there is not even really even to watch a movie.

629
00:44:02,957 --> 00:44:08,617
It's to experience it. He has hallways because because he got very creative

630
00:44:08,617 --> 00:44:10,817
with the floor plan, because he just kept adding on.

631
00:44:11,057 --> 00:44:15,837
So there's long hallways in some aspects, but in these long hallways, it's like a museum.

632
00:44:16,057 --> 00:44:19,837
For the most part, one attraction part of it is...

633
00:44:20,893 --> 00:44:25,813
There's a museum aspect when you go down these halls like he provides cabinets

634
00:44:25,813 --> 00:44:29,353
where it's like through the decades and

635
00:44:29,353 --> 00:44:32,573
he would rotate him throughout the like throughout the year but he

636
00:44:32,573 --> 00:44:36,733
would have like a 1980s decade cabinet and in within that you know topped up

637
00:44:36,733 --> 00:44:41,053
and i'm talking like it looked like three feet by like maybe 10 feet or something

638
00:44:41,053 --> 00:44:44,753
but within there it just really broke down like things you would find then it

639
00:44:44,753 --> 00:44:49,373
would have like magazines it would have not not memorabilia, just things that are,

640
00:44:49,533 --> 00:44:53,213
were made or released or existed in that timeframe.

641
00:44:53,753 --> 00:44:57,133
And so he would provide those cabinets as an experience.

642
00:44:57,493 --> 00:45:02,553
Uh, he was big into film and there's a part you'll notice that he has like so

643
00:45:02,553 --> 00:45:08,553
many like old school projectors and we're talking like the real that's R E E

644
00:45:08,553 --> 00:45:12,333
L, uh, projectors where it actually has like film strips,

645
00:45:12,493 --> 00:45:16,953
like the true authentic millimeter films you know the original prints original

646
00:45:16,953 --> 00:45:20,773
press like it's amazing but he has a lot of these and you actually learn that

647
00:45:20,773 --> 00:45:26,193
he actually would go around and like go to old abandoned theaters that are shut

648
00:45:26,193 --> 00:45:29,833
down and he would like ask because he has like access to,

649
00:45:30,333 --> 00:45:34,053
seeing which ones were around and he would ask like hey is it cool like if we

650
00:45:34,053 --> 00:45:38,493
can purchase items from it and so or if the theater is about to close they're

651
00:45:38,493 --> 00:45:41,113
like yeah we're getting rid of stuff because there's theaters now that are still

652
00:45:41,113 --> 00:45:45,433
standing that are you know deserted but they're still old.

653
00:45:46,093 --> 00:45:48,673
Remnants and i mean i'm sure if you guys go on youtube you guys can find like,

654
00:45:49,173 --> 00:45:53,953
youtube videos are like oh we like infiltrated a abandoned theater and you know

655
00:45:53,953 --> 00:45:59,113
watch us go through it and possibly run into a ghost or some nonsense i don't know.

656
00:46:01,153 --> 00:46:05,173
But you're discovering those stairs there's like a lot of stuff left back and

657
00:46:05,173 --> 00:46:08,333
so that's how he was He was able to acquire a lot of these old projectors and

658
00:46:08,333 --> 00:46:10,473
he would refurbish them and have them displayed.

659
00:46:10,633 --> 00:46:15,353
So it was like, you know, like one hallway was just a museum of of projectors

660
00:46:15,353 --> 00:46:17,753
from big ones to personal ones. Yeah.

661
00:46:19,057 --> 00:46:22,297
And there's a lot of things like when you watch this film, which I highly recommend,

662
00:46:22,457 --> 00:46:25,817
especially if you're a movie theater guy, again, hence the title,

663
00:46:25,837 --> 00:46:32,237
if you're a movie man or woman, it really, it really shows the passion through

664
00:46:32,237 --> 00:46:36,157
the years and, and what you see in terms of film.

665
00:46:36,457 --> 00:46:43,817
And I don't know, it's, it's, I mean, one of his like corridors or hallways is called memory lane.

666
00:46:43,997 --> 00:46:46,717
And I mean, that's literally it. Like, that's all I kept thinking about.

667
00:46:46,717 --> 00:46:49,617
It's like, this is memory lane. like it's like i've been to there's been

668
00:46:49,617 --> 00:46:52,497
moments where i've been to like these old thrift shops like in monterey or

669
00:46:52,497 --> 00:46:55,197
even like sacramento downtown you know and you see

670
00:46:55,197 --> 00:46:57,997
these old school things and you're like whoa look at that

671
00:46:57,997 --> 00:47:00,757
like that's really what it is what it looked

672
00:47:00,757 --> 00:47:04,237
like to me but film heavily but then

673
00:47:04,237 --> 00:47:07,937
you go into the auditoriums that he has you know they're small but they're

674
00:47:07,937 --> 00:47:11,077
all unique and for the most part most of them are like crafted

675
00:47:11,077 --> 00:47:14,517
by himself and obviously help with others because he was a craftsman and

676
00:47:14,517 --> 00:47:17,237
like they're just very unique and you're like

677
00:47:17,237 --> 00:47:20,417
man like what like how like i mean

678
00:47:20,417 --> 00:47:23,017
i would love to just go and experience it just to see it i have

679
00:47:23,017 --> 00:47:26,077
no idea how it the sound or picture looks

680
00:47:26,077 --> 00:47:29,197
you do see that he upgrades his stuff

681
00:47:29,197 --> 00:47:32,017
like he went to digital projectors which is kind of funny

682
00:47:32,017 --> 00:47:34,937
because there's a there's a part where he's in the

683
00:47:34,937 --> 00:47:39,017
film where he's trying to like navigate it because it's so expensive these projectors

684
00:47:39,017 --> 00:47:43,257
and all these things all these digital things and they're just so like technology

685
00:47:43,257 --> 00:47:47,817
is just so irritating because it wants to be so advanced but at the same time

686
00:47:47,817 --> 00:47:52,297
it's so fragile and uh drives you crazy but.

687
00:47:53,166 --> 00:47:56,346
Anyways so he does upgrade his tech and stuff but it's

688
00:47:56,346 --> 00:48:00,026
just really cool it's just really interesting to see and again

689
00:48:00,026 --> 00:48:02,866
for me it was definitely hitting it was definitely hitting a special place

690
00:48:02,866 --> 00:48:05,946
in my in in my heart because again i love cinemas

691
00:48:05,946 --> 00:48:08,826
i mean not too long ago i went to pomona right

692
00:48:08,826 --> 00:48:11,586
there outside of los angeles and we me and my wife we went to go get

693
00:48:11,586 --> 00:48:14,966
some food at a restaurant and there happened

694
00:48:14,966 --> 00:48:19,666
to be a movie theater in the shopping center of of the restaurant and as were

695
00:48:19,666 --> 00:48:22,366
pulling up because we had to like approach the front of the theater and then

696
00:48:22,366 --> 00:48:26,306
turn or whatever they had like these big glass windows and we looked through

697
00:48:26,306 --> 00:48:30,606
and it was just so old school like it was two stories like they actually had

698
00:48:30,606 --> 00:48:33,926
stairs on both sides so you can get up there.

699
00:48:34,386 --> 00:48:38,306
Remind me of like just those old school i

700
00:48:38,306 --> 00:48:41,206
don't know if you guys ever seen in glory if you've seen inglorious bastards you

701
00:48:41,206 --> 00:48:44,626
know towards the end when they're trying to do that that whole

702
00:48:44,626 --> 00:48:47,506
thing where they're trying to attack i believe it's hitler and you

703
00:48:47,506 --> 00:48:50,326
have like the main lobby and then into the side you have the stairs where they go up

704
00:48:50,326 --> 00:48:52,946
so they can sit access the chairs that are up

705
00:48:52,946 --> 00:48:55,626
there for like the balconies or whatever like that's kind of

706
00:48:55,626 --> 00:48:58,426
what it looked like in the front of the theater like it was like very old school he

707
00:48:58,426 --> 00:49:02,166
had like the concessions yeah like the ticket booth kind of in the center almost

708
00:49:02,166 --> 00:49:06,926
like a ticket booth and you know new york's what's the the famous new york train

709
00:49:06,926 --> 00:49:10,866
station or what's called unfortunately top my head right now but it just looks

710
00:49:10,866 --> 00:49:13,906
so nice and then you have these big old like curved stairs on the sides that

711
00:49:13,906 --> 00:49:16,026
take you up and And I literally was like, man,

712
00:49:16,066 --> 00:49:19,566
I got to like come back at some point just to watch any movie that's here because

713
00:49:19,566 --> 00:49:20,906
I just want to experience this theater.

714
00:49:21,006 --> 00:49:26,586
I want to see how it is because it just very aesthetically looks old school, which I love.

715
00:49:26,786 --> 00:49:29,726
I mean, a lot of people nowadays don't realize that theaters,

716
00:49:29,826 --> 00:49:35,566
they used to bury them underground partially to create that stadium seating.

717
00:49:36,006 --> 00:49:41,106
You would go into, you'd see a building, you know, and it'd be like not too big.

718
00:49:41,106 --> 00:49:44,246
Big but then you go inside because there was one where i used to live i used

719
00:49:44,246 --> 00:49:47,746
to live in los banos and then gilroy and i remember going to the theater when

720
00:49:47,746 --> 00:49:48,906
i was a kid and they would be.

721
00:49:49,406 --> 00:49:52,066
You go in it's like okay out from the outside it's like

722
00:49:52,066 --> 00:49:54,846
it looks like a little building but then it'd be two screens because that's

723
00:49:54,846 --> 00:49:57,646
all they had and you go either the left one or the right one

724
00:49:57,646 --> 00:50:00,826
screen one screen two you go in and then

725
00:50:00,826 --> 00:50:03,666
all of a sudden you know you're going down like there's an arch

726
00:50:03,666 --> 00:50:06,666
down and you're like wait a minute why does

727
00:50:06,666 --> 00:50:10,186
it look so big they didn't look this big because it was kind of buried

728
00:50:10,186 --> 00:50:13,566
into the ground almost like a bunker in a sense and it

729
00:50:13,566 --> 00:50:16,486
was angled so that way it created this

730
00:50:16,486 --> 00:50:19,926
like slope of stadium seating before nowadays

731
00:50:19,926 --> 00:50:23,186
where it's like literally stadium seating where we have stairs and all that

732
00:50:23,186 --> 00:50:26,846
back then it was just a slope and sometimes it wasn't even enough so you'd have

733
00:50:26,846 --> 00:50:30,826
someone sitting in front of you and you're like bro be shorter cut your hair

734
00:50:30,826 --> 00:50:36,086
or do something like you're blocking my view it sucked back in the day but you

735
00:50:36,086 --> 00:50:39,826
know that's old school like those are those were theaters coming up.

736
00:50:41,022 --> 00:50:45,002
Now, I mean, shoot, the theater I go to, you get like reclining chairs.

737
00:50:45,142 --> 00:50:49,602
It's like your own personal living space and you're extremely comfortable in

738
00:50:49,602 --> 00:50:53,222
all kinds of crazy stuff, which don't get me wrong. I don't argue that. I love it.

739
00:50:53,502 --> 00:50:58,402
But I'm an IMAX guy. So a lot of the IMAXs don't have these recline reclinable

740
00:50:58,402 --> 00:51:01,942
chairs with the feet up and everything. I'm all about the big screen.

741
00:51:02,722 --> 00:51:07,782
But it's just it's interesting because the film follows Keith going through

742
00:51:07,782 --> 00:51:10,262
that, building it, creating it.

743
00:51:10,262 --> 00:51:15,342
But then it shows the impact that COVID had on him where he had to shut it down

744
00:51:15,342 --> 00:51:17,882
for a couple of years because of it.

745
00:51:18,262 --> 00:51:23,662
And that was very interesting because if those that, you know,

746
00:51:23,662 --> 00:51:28,082
remember COVID shut down a lot of stuff, like a lot of businesses went out.

747
00:51:28,162 --> 00:51:31,942
They closed a lot of what would be public attractions.

748
00:51:32,642 --> 00:51:35,602
Theaters were shut down. And I'm not talking about shut down like they were

749
00:51:35,602 --> 00:51:36,342
closed for like the year.

750
00:51:36,382 --> 00:51:39,422
I'm talking about they were like the buildings gone. on like the business just

751
00:51:39,422 --> 00:51:43,022
they went out of business and so it's interesting to

752
00:51:43,022 --> 00:51:48,902
see the hardship that keith goes through because his theory isn't like all year

753
00:51:48,902 --> 00:51:55,342
round it's generally during the summer and slightly beginning of a fall well

754
00:51:55,342 --> 00:51:59,922
when summer fall spring summer fall and then a little bit winter because you'll

755
00:51:59,922 --> 00:52:02,522
learn in the film when if when i hope you watch it.

756
00:52:03,642 --> 00:52:06,782
Because it's Canada and based where they're at, it snows.

757
00:52:06,782 --> 00:52:11,182
And when it snows, it snows bad. And I mean, this guy's running it himself.

758
00:52:11,402 --> 00:52:16,762
I mean, he has like maybe another person that's like maybe all the time employed

759
00:52:16,762 --> 00:52:21,802
in a sense, but for the most part, most of his employees are just kids in school.

760
00:52:21,962 --> 00:52:23,182
Like it's like a summer job.

761
00:52:23,622 --> 00:52:27,242
And so those are the ones that, and there was actually some pretty good banter

762
00:52:27,242 --> 00:52:34,402
as far as him showing the youngins how to work hard and do do stuff because he's very old school.

763
00:52:34,462 --> 00:52:38,962
I mean, this gentleman, I think he's like in his seventies or eighties at the

764
00:52:38,962 --> 00:52:39,882
time of making of this film.

765
00:52:41,365 --> 00:52:44,765
Excuse me and so yeah i

766
00:52:44,765 --> 00:52:47,405
know you see you see all that the dynamic that he has and

767
00:52:47,405 --> 00:52:50,265
it's just really really funny but so

768
00:52:50,265 --> 00:52:52,945
it snows during the the winter time and yeah there's no

769
00:52:52,945 --> 00:52:55,785
way there's no way because again he's out in the woods like he literally

770
00:52:55,785 --> 00:52:58,605
has like chipmunks raccoons there's a

771
00:52:58,605 --> 00:53:01,925
bear there's like deer like and it actually

772
00:53:01,925 --> 00:53:04,765
shows how he is able to not

773
00:53:04,765 --> 00:53:08,205
only support them these like wild animals but

774
00:53:08,205 --> 00:53:10,965
even keep them at bay in a sense um so that

775
00:53:10,965 --> 00:53:13,525
was pretty cool to see like what he does and you know how he

776
00:53:13,525 --> 00:53:16,285
feeds and takes care of them the other big

777
00:53:16,285 --> 00:53:19,685
attraction that his highlands cinema

778
00:53:19,685 --> 00:53:22,485
has not only is it obviously films because

779
00:53:22,485 --> 00:53:25,645
again this is like a little village 300 people so i

780
00:53:25,645 --> 00:53:28,445
mean i would assume they have internet and

781
00:53:28,445 --> 00:53:31,565
everything there of course but like if they want to go

782
00:53:31,565 --> 00:53:34,305
to the theater like he's the only one i don't

783
00:53:34,305 --> 00:53:36,925
know where the nearest city is i don't really remember if they highlight that

784
00:53:36,925 --> 00:53:41,965
so but not only being the theater and showing movies not only the museum aspect

785
00:53:41,965 --> 00:53:48,445
of his cinema and the history and everything but he also has like a cat it's

786
00:53:48,445 --> 00:53:53,365
like i guess you can call it a cat farm or something because this dude has like.

787
00:53:53,965 --> 00:53:57,825
I don't know over 40 cats and it's

788
00:53:57,825 --> 00:54:00,985
pretty creative like he created like these walking walking

789
00:54:00,985 --> 00:54:04,405
trench paths like on on like or

790
00:54:04,405 --> 00:54:07,125
it's like fenced off but they're able

791
00:54:07,125 --> 00:54:09,985
to walk and get some air there's like certain cats where

792
00:54:09,985 --> 00:54:13,665
they they have where people can go and see i don't know if it's like a full-fledged

793
00:54:13,665 --> 00:54:16,365
like petting zoo i didn't really see it being like that it was just more of

794
00:54:16,365 --> 00:54:20,025
a novelty of seeing the cats like they know the cats he's met he mentions in

795
00:54:20,025 --> 00:54:25,185
the film that like there are regular guests that go and they know the cat's

796
00:54:25,185 --> 00:54:28,465
names and stuff but he takes care of it and it's crazy because like during the

797
00:54:28,465 --> 00:54:29,405
pandemic when he was shut down.

798
00:54:30,652 --> 00:54:32,932
Because again, it's just seasonal. And then on top of that, he had to shut down,

799
00:54:33,012 --> 00:54:34,532
I believe, two or three years.

800
00:54:35,292 --> 00:54:39,032
He takes donations for the cats and does this and does that.

801
00:54:39,592 --> 00:54:41,312
And then he has a couple of dogs with him himself.

802
00:54:42,352 --> 00:54:46,472
But that was the other big attraction. It's just the cats, the museum aspect,

803
00:54:46,652 --> 00:54:49,612
the novelty of all the old school stuff through the decades.

804
00:54:49,912 --> 00:54:53,832
And then you have the actual experience of going into auditorium and being very unique.

805
00:54:54,072 --> 00:54:58,612
And then, of course, you have the film aspect. aspect but i

806
00:54:58,612 --> 00:55:01,392
gotta tell you man like again being one

807
00:55:01,392 --> 00:55:04,492
passionate about theaters like this one really this one

808
00:55:04,492 --> 00:55:09,372
really hit home for me on that aspect because like

809
00:55:09,372 --> 00:55:12,132
i've already said you just you just don't see it anymore and it's

810
00:55:12,132 --> 00:55:15,012
very it's very bummerish but this one's

811
00:55:15,012 --> 00:55:18,552
very unique it's really cool i highly recommend checking

812
00:55:18,552 --> 00:55:21,592
this movie out it's about an hour and a half it's not not bad it's entertaining

813
00:55:21,592 --> 00:55:24,432
if anything again if you're into

814
00:55:24,432 --> 00:55:27,792
cinemas and passionate about

815
00:55:27,792 --> 00:55:33,492
it like it's really cool just to see someone take action and bring that passion

816
00:55:33,492 --> 00:55:39,172
to life and share it with everyone and then just seeing the hardships like you

817
00:55:39,172 --> 00:55:43,092
kind of get a glimpse of not too much but a little bit of behind the scenes

818
00:55:43,092 --> 00:55:44,572
of what it's like to own your own theater,

819
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:52,260
But the uniqueness of it is just by far. And even Keith's personality is just

820
00:55:52,260 --> 00:55:53,260
fantastic. He's hilarious.

821
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:57,860
He just had me cracking up just the way he interacts with certain people.

822
00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:05,300
He's just very blunt in some aspects. And it's just very eye-opening,

823
00:56:05,380 --> 00:56:09,520
the dedication and what people had to go through when COVID hit.

824
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:15,900
Because it seemed for a minute there like it was done. He was about to call it quits.

825
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:20,380
But we'll see if it's still ongoing because again when this made when this when

826
00:56:20,380 --> 00:56:26,300
this documentary was made it was by the end of it i think they were already like in 2022 2023,

827
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:35,100
so more 2022 possibly so obviously now we're in 2024 so he's been going on for 43 years,

828
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:43,020
and hopefully he just keeps going because one of the big themes that you'll find in this film was.

829
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:46,780
What because keith is it didn't seem like he has any

830
00:56:46,780 --> 00:56:50,100
next of kin so the question becomes

831
00:56:50,100 --> 00:56:53,320
what would happen to the future of this

832
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:56,760
you know for for king

833
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:59,780
for kin mount this iconic cinema one of

834
00:56:59,780 --> 00:57:03,360
the big things that they talked about it's like he wanted to pass it to one of

835
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:06,180
his friends that helped them and did

836
00:57:06,180 --> 00:57:09,440
a lot of stuff but they're like almost the same age and so

837
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,900
it's like we want to give it someone young and it's like well we don't want to you know

838
00:57:12,900 --> 00:57:16,700
give it to someone and they just bulldoze it or commercialize it

839
00:57:16,700 --> 00:57:20,780
because it definitely has its problems we'll

840
00:57:20,780 --> 00:57:23,900
say i think covid and stand still

841
00:57:23,900 --> 00:57:27,040
as you watch the film really highlights that and

842
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:30,280
i can definitely see people someone who

843
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:33,140
inherits that or takes over it would be like this is not worth my time

844
00:57:33,140 --> 00:57:36,800
or money and they would just be like get rid of it but

845
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,680
above everything else on top of

846
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:42,820
like the cinema and the memorabilia and everything above everything

847
00:57:42,820 --> 00:57:45,500
else what's most important to keith is who's gonna take care

848
00:57:45,500 --> 00:57:49,640
of the cats and so as

849
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:52,920
you guys already heard from the previous segment you know savvy the.

850
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:55,520
Cat was my favorite short film there and a

851
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:58,240
little bias to it like yeah there's a little bias in

852
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:01,940
this one too because it's just it's just so amazing but yeah i

853
00:58:01,940 --> 00:58:04,840
think that would be a big concern so who knows

854
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:07,820
i mean i don't know what the future holds for keith and and for

855
00:58:07,820 --> 00:58:11,520
highland cinemas but i believe that

856
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:15,360
this was a really cool film to be made

857
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:21,200
and share with the public and for everyone to see like i said if for whatever

858
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:25,540
reason if i'm ever in that area or remotely close to it just even if it's like

859
00:58:25,540 --> 00:58:31,640
an hour or so drive away or what have you i would I would definitely make sure

860
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:34,420
it's on my go-to if it's still around.

861
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:40,420
But I think bringing this film to light to a lot of people and letting it spread,

862
00:58:40,500 --> 00:58:42,060
I think hopefully can help people,

863
00:58:43,049 --> 00:58:47,029
bring the awareness and hopefully attract more people. Cause I think it's again,

864
00:58:47,169 --> 00:58:48,329
I've said it before already.

865
00:58:48,469 --> 00:58:52,129
It's very interesting. It's very unique and definitely needs some more spotlight.

866
00:58:53,349 --> 00:58:58,189
So the movie, man, again, I don't know where, how this will be available,

867
00:58:58,249 --> 00:59:01,449
but if you guys ever have a chance to check it out, obviously keep checking

868
00:59:01,449 --> 00:59:07,189
out, you know, wherever you buy digital movies, chances are there won't be any physical.

869
00:59:07,289 --> 00:59:11,009
Cause again, the whole separate topic, man, physical media is going away,

870
00:59:11,009 --> 00:59:15,149
way but be sure to check out this movie if you ever have a chance to it's a

871
00:59:15,149 --> 00:59:15,989
really good documentary,

872
00:59:16,569 --> 00:59:19,509
hopefully it pops up in a streaming site so that way it's

873
00:59:19,509 --> 00:59:22,589
more accessible like someone like netflix or something because i

874
00:59:22,589 --> 00:59:25,749
mean almost everybody has that but i highly recommend it

875
00:59:25,749 --> 00:59:32,729
five out of five from me very passionate about cinemas yeah well those are the

876
00:59:32,729 --> 00:59:38,009
films short films and feature film that i was able to review for the santa barbara

877
00:59:38,009 --> 00:59:40,989
international film festival on behalf of uncle Uncle Dad Talks.

878
00:59:41,089 --> 00:59:42,709
I hope you guys enjoyed it.

879
00:59:42,849 --> 00:59:45,609
I hope I made this as entertaining as I can.

880
00:59:46,849 --> 00:59:50,289
As always, I'm Rick. You guys can find me at Sigma Duocast.

881
00:59:50,709 --> 00:59:53,809
I'll be working with Uncle Dad. Hopefully I'll get some more projects,

882
00:59:53,929 --> 00:59:58,349
bring you guys some more film reviews and really share some of my personal favorite

883
00:59:58,349 --> 01:00:01,089
films, you know, growing up.

884
01:00:01,109 --> 01:00:06,949
Cause like I said, the genre it's fully open for me i love all of it not really

885
01:00:06,949 --> 01:00:13,389
biased to anything and i don't know it's always good to try and live out a fantasy

886
01:00:13,389 --> 01:00:17,829
or view a fantasy that you might have and film definitely brings that so,

887
01:00:18,489 --> 01:00:23,409
we'll see until next guy next time guys i do appreciate you catch you guys later.